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Education advocate reports $385,000 haul in bid for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District

Megan Messerly
Megan Messerly
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Education advocate and philanthropist Susie Lee will report raising $385,000 in the last three months of the year in her bid for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, ending the year with more than $600,000 on hand, her campaign said Tuesday.

Lee, a Democrat who ran in the crowded Democratic primary for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District last cycle, received contributions from 1,000 individual donors, with a median contribution of $50, according to her campaign.

“In a time of increasing dysfunction and gridlock in Washington, Nevadans are clearly excited about the prospect of leadership in Congress that prioritizes real results and local solutions instead of partisan games,” Lee said in a statement. “I look forward to building on our campaign’s success in the months to come.”

Other than an in-kind contribution of about $1,500, Lee did not loan or contribute personal funds to her campaign in the fourth quarter, and only contributed $380 previously. She loaned herself $655,000 and contributed another $23,000 in her 2016 campaign.

Lee hasn’t attracted any serious Democratic primary challengers in the 3rd District, in which Democrats have a narrow 7,000-person voter registration advantage over Republicans.

Not so on the Republican side, where four candidates are battling to run in the general election in November. They are state Sen. Scott Hammond, former Clark County Republican Party chair Dave McKeon, former television news report Michelle Mortensen and Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman.

Mortensen, who entered the race in early November, raised slightly more than $81,000 last quarter. The rest of the candidates in the 3rd District have yet to file or otherwise make public their financial disclosures, which are due Wednesday.

Lee’s fourth quarter haul builds on the $315,178 she raised between July and September. On the Republican side, Seaman raised $64,000 and loaned herself another $50,000 in the third quarter, while Hammond reported raising $51,700 and McKeon brought in $39,695 over that fundraising cycle.

Democrat Jacky Rosen, a former synagogue leader who also worked in computer science, is vacating the 3rd Congressional District seat to run for Republican Sen. Dean Heller’s Senate seat in 2018. She beat Republican businessman Danny Tarkanian for the seat by about 1.3 percentage points in 2016.

Disclosure: Susie Lee has donated to The Nevada Independent. You can see a full list of donors here.

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